Graphics Designing Self-Training Hand Book
Publisher: Arrow Graphics Solutions ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kampala Uganda
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 92
Description: This is a guide book that is meant to help whoever is interested in graphic designing; it’s more suitable for visual artists who would like to use computer aided software to become graphic designers. The book is meant to train how to create simple and complex desktop publishing items using different software. This book has only five graphic designing softwares which are currently used by many graphic designers and all desktop publishers and they include Adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, CorelDraw, and QuarkXPress. The main aim of this manuscript is to give self-training ideas on how to create graphics for print production such as; books, logos, posters, business cards, billboards, magazines etc. For the last six years I have been training graphics designing to students pursuing bachelors of industrial art and design and as they graduate and go out in the field, I have found that there is a need to give a hand book about how to use and create different items in different softwares. It is on this
note that I was motivated to put this information together so that it can be possible for whoever is interested in graphic designing to train him or herself.
Table of contents: title: Preamble ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- iii; title: Contents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ v; title: Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------------1; title: Graphic design -------------------------------------------------------------------1; title: Adobe Illustrator --------------------------------------------------------------------3; title: Introduction to Illustrator --------------------------------------------------3; title: Starting Illustrator ---------------------------------------------------------------3; title: Create a New Document ---------------------------------------------------3; title: Illustrator Workspace -------------------------------------------------------4; title: The Floating Palette ---------------------------------------------------------5; title: The Toolbox --------------------------------------------------------------------5; title: Changing Fill Colour ----------------------------------------------------------9; title: Filling Color Using Swatches --------------------------------------------- 10; title: Drawing and making shapes. -------------------------------------------- 10; title: Rotating Shapes ------------------------------------------------------------ 11; title: Create a star ----------------------------------------------------------------- 12; title: Drawing using a Pen & Pencil tool. ------------------------------------ 12; title: Closing Paths with Pencil Tool ------------------------------------------ 13; title: Drawing Curves with a Pen Tool ---------------------------------------- 13; title: Changing Path Directions ------------------------------------------------- 13; title: Drawing a Circular Path --------------------------------------------------- 14; title: Create a Border Pattern -------------------------------------------------- 14; title: Applying Gradient to Objects-------------------------------------------- 15; title: Transparency ---------------------------------------------------------------- 15; title: Resizing any shape or text ----------------------------------------------- 16; title: Create a simple Logo --------------------------------------------------------- 16; title: Create a simple Sign Poster ------------------------------------------------- 20; title: Corel Draw -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24; title: Introduction to Corel draw -------------------------------------------------- 24; title: Corel draw Tool Box ------------------------------------------------------- 25; title: Create a simple design ---------------------------------------------------- 25; title: Adobe Photoshop ----------------------------------------------------------------- 27; title: Introduction Photoshop ----------------------------------------------------- 27; title: Work space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 28; title: Using the selection tools ----------------------------------------------------- 34; title: Using Layers --------------------------------------------------------------------- 35; title: Adding Text --------------------------------------------------------------------- 36; title: Image Editing ------------------------------------------------------------------- 37; title: Moving the image ---------------------------------------------------------- 37; title: Changing the image or photo size -------------------------------------- 37; title: Adjusting the Image or Photo brightness ---------------------------- 38; title: Removing the background. ---------------------------------------------- 38; title: Removing the Photo Background -------------------------------------- 44; title: Creating lipstick, effects on a photo. ---------------------------------- 46; title: Creating Make-up ---------------------------------------------------------- 48; title: Adding Make-up on the hair and changing hair colour ----------- 49; title: Create a curves in Photoshop ------------------------------------------- 50; title: Smoothening and Softening the Image ------------------------------- 51; title: Adobe InDesign-------------------------------------------------------------------- 59; title: Introduction InDesign -------------------------------------------------------- 59; title: Launching InDesign ----------------------------------------------------------- 59; title: Setting up new document ------------------------------------------------ 60; title: Master Pages ---------------------------------------------------------------- 61; title: Auto Page Number --------------------------------------------------------- 61; title: The tool box ----------------------------------------------------------------- 63; title: To Display the toolbox ---------------------------------------------------- 66; title: Display and select hidden tools ----------------------------------------- 66; title: Adding Text ------------------------------------------------------------------ 67; title: Laying a page with text and images --------------------------------------- 70; title: Applying colour and Gradient ------------------------------------------- 72; title: Quark Xpress ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 73; title: Introduction to Quark Xpress ----------------------------------------------- 73; title: Start QuarkXPress. --------------------------------------------------------- 73; title: The Tools (F8) --------------------------------------------------------------- 75; title: Adding the text, Importing Text ---------------------------------------- 77; title: Choosing Colour and Shade --------------------------------------------- 78; title: Saving ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 79; title: Linking and Unlinking the text ------------------------------------------ 79; title: Laying a page ---------------------------------------------------------------- 80; title: Text Wrap or Running Text Around ------------------------------------ 80; title: Conclusion -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 82; title: References -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 83